Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Monolith Sighting!



In one scene from "Clueless", there is an obvious reference to the monolith made iconic by Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is waiting anxiously for a call from homosexual semi-boyfriend and of course at that time (late 90s?) the phones were pretty bulky and rectangular. The shot pans up from the bottom of the black rectangular telephone using the exact same music from 2001. It mimicks the scene when the monolith is rising up from the ground and you can barely see the sun peeking from behind it.

Who would have guessed you'd find a piece of Kubrick in the same movie as Alicia Silverstone and Britney Murphy. What a holiday surprise!

-Miss Alyce Lauren Thibodeaux